Thursday, February 19, 2015

ZOLTAN ISTVAN: RELIGION AND AI


Talking The Walk

IF AND when humanity builds an artificial super-intelligence, will it be Bapticostal or Presbylutheran?

Seriously, the day is coming when people of faith will have to wrestle with the concept of spiritual machines. Zoltan Istvan, author of The Transhumanist Wager and candidate for president in 2016 on the Transhumanist Party ticket, discusses his recent article, “When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?”



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Derek P. Gilbert hosts the Internet radio show A View From the Bunker and co-hosts P.I.D. Radio with wife, author and analyst Sharon K. Gilbert

He’s a Christian, a husband and father, author of the novels The God Conspiracy and Iron Dragons, and a contributing author to God’s Ghostbusters and Blood on the Altar. He’s a lifelong Cubs fan, prefers glasses to contacts, and has been seen in public singing the high part in barbershop quartets. » Read full bio